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Release notes, guides and video tutorials for running your own audiobook server. Every post says when it was last checked against the software you can download today.

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AudioSilo on Apple Watch: leave the phone at home, take a book with you

Feature · 8 November 2026 · 4 min

AudioSilo's Apple Watch app plays books downloaded to the watch, signs in from your iPhone and syncs your listening with your server.

The shelf

Back up your Audible books straight into your AudioSilo library

Feature 4 min
Audible and AudioSilo keep your listening place in step, both ways

Feature 3 min
Why isn't my audiobook progress syncing between devices?

Guide 3 min
AudioSilo vs the competition: matching, first scans and everyday features

Guide 11 min
AudioSilo 2.6: less database work, native SQLite on Linux

Feature 2 min
Help complete the community database from your own server

Feature 3 min
LibriVox joins AudioSilo's community metadata

Feature 3 min
Listening sync: your place and offline listening across devices

Feature 3 min
Read along: the ebook follows the narration in the AudioSilo player

Feature 3 min
AudioSilo Server 2.6: upcoming releases, Sync v2, read-along and Audible

Release 6 min
Match automatically gets more of your library right

Feature 6 min
Upcoming releases: what's coming in the series you listen to

Feature 5 min
First scans many times faster in AudioSilo Server 2.5.1

Feature 3 min
Why the first scan of a big audiobook library is slow, and what makes it fast

Guide 4 min
The web player no longer downloads the books you play on its own

Feature 1 min
Faster transcription for your Bridge: an ASR worker in one command

Feature 3 min
Replaced

AudioSilo vs Audiobookshelf: features and benchmarks compared

Guide 12 min
How to back up a self-hosted app before you upgrade it

Guide 3 min
Read the ebook: your EPUBs in the AudioSilo player

Feature 3 min
What is an MKA audiobook, and how do you play or convert one?

Guide 3 min
MKA audiobooks now play in the iPhone and Android apps

Feature 3 min
Replaced

AudioSilo Server 2.5: read the ebook, a faster server, and .mka everywhere

Release 7 min
Why audiobook files play out of order, and how to fix the file names

Guide 3 min
Characters and recaps from your own Bridge, and sharing them back

Feature 3 min
Set up your server: a guided first run in the admin console

Feature 3 min
How to move your podcast subscriptions to another app with OPML

Guide 3 min
Podcasts in AudioSilo: your shows beside your books

Feature 4 min
Replaced

AudioSilo Server 2.4: podcasts, the Bridge and a guided first run

Release 6 min
Tidying a big library: genres, tags, bulk edits and duplicates

Feature 3 min
Set up AudioSilo with Caddy: Docker Compose and HTTPS

Tutorial 8 min
Set up AudioSilo with SWAG: Docker Compose and HTTPS

Tutorial 9 min
Set up AudioSilo with Traefik: Docker Compose and HTTPS

Tutorial 8 min
Listen to your audiobooks away from home: remote access and HTTPS

Guide 4 min
How to organise audiobook folders so every player gets them right

Guide 4 min
How to back up your Audible library to M4B and listen on your own server

Guide 5 min
AudioSilo player tips: 14 features worth knowing

Tip 3 min
How to pair your phone with your AudioSilo server using a QR code

Tutorial 4 min
Fix wrong covers, titles and series in your audiobook library

Tip 4 min
Moving from Audiobookshelf to AudioSilo: what carries over, what doesn't

Guide 5 min
Replaced

AudioSilo Server 2.3: household members, Chromecast and a local metadata copy

Release 3 min
Self-hosted audiobook server: what it is and how to run one with Docker

Guide 5 min
AudioSilo 2.0: the redesigned player, now in the App Store and on Google Play

Release 3 min
M4B vs MP3 for audiobooks: chapters, size and what plays where

Guide 3 min
Audiobooks on Unraid: an audiobook server from Community Applications

Guide 5 min
A tour of the AudioSilo admin console

Tutorial 4:35 video
Replaced

AudioSilo Server 2.1 and 2.2: community chapters, books in several series, covers

Release 3 min

A series · 6 books

Something to read tonight.

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Release notes, in order